I've noticed that some fairly good posts are downvoted into oblivion on voat without any reason... maybe the user is an "enemy"? I'm sure there're some SBBH types that all brigade together on their least favoured users. What strikes me as odd is there is no justification on -5 -7 posts... so five or seven people downvote and don't even leave a reason? weird and not cool. just attacking a user.
Wouldn't it be nice if people had to at the least justify downvote? It's an opportunity to learn how to better post if you really fucked up as OP... however most things shouldn't be downvoted though if there's effort from OP... amiright? thoughts?
No.
As the recipient of many questionable downvotes, I wouldn't want to change it in that way.
Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes someone else already explained it, sometimes a user doesn't have the time or will to get into it.
There are reasonable times to downvote without comment. Especially with spam.
It does get abused. I know that very well.
But I think it would prevent more legit votes than illegitimate. Anything that places barriers to participation should be avoided I think.
I think we need to find another solution.
Maybe list the user names of people who up/down voted if someone clicks for details?